Natalya Georgyevna Gundareva was a Soviet Russian film and theatre actress, one of the leading figures at the Mayakovsky Theatre where she worked since 1971. People's Artist of Russia and the USSR State Prize laureate, as well as a four times winner of the Soviet Screen magazine's Soviet Actress of the Year poll, Gundareva is best remembered for her leading parts in Sweet Woman, Autumn Marathon and Once Upon a Time Twenty Years Later.